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… called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring … the chemical conditions necessary for groups of neurons to team up to encode information. Specifically, the … about the movies lab mice were seeing. GABA is a common inhibitory neurotransmitter that sharpens neural activity and …

… circumstances, these chemicals steer the activity of neurons to produce and sustain relatively long-lasting … it uses a burst of endocannabinoids to quiet down inhibitory signals that would otherwise come from another … she’ll knock out the endocannabinoid receptors on the inhibitory cells and see what difference that makes to the …

… and chaos. It’s got to be excitable enough for its neurons to influence one another, but if it gets too … occurs because of disinhibition. When propofol boosts the inhibitory drive, this drive inhibits other inhibitory neurons, and the result is an overall increase in …